democrats challenge two arizona rules. one, that tosses out ballots when voters show up at the wrong pre precinct. the ruling was 6-3. that a reflection of the court's powerful conservative majority and it sends a clear signal this court believes states get wide latitude in the voting rules. we are joined with the big final day decisions. >> very big, indeed. and the take away from this is that this is going to make it a lot harder for challengers of these voting laws to actually prevail here. because in this 6 3 decision written, this didn't just uphold the arizona laws that have been in effect for many years. but this restricted the ability of challengers to really challenge section 2. and the reason why this is so important is that really section 2 is the only way now for these people to challenge these voting laws. that's because in 2013, the supreme court struck down essentially section 5 of the voting rights act. that was a section that mandated that jurisdictions with the history of racial discrimination, they neede

maricopa is arizona's most populous county. county supervisors there reportedly got texts and phone calls as votes were being counted and later as the votes were being contested. here are two of those voice mails from rudy giuliani, one to clint hickman, who is the chair of the maricopa county chair of supervisors at the time, and another to bill gates. the music you'll hear underneath the call was added by the arizona republic in their online story. >> this is rudy giuliani. i was very happy to see this is going to be forensic audit of the machines. i really wanted to talk to you about it. the president wanted me to give you a call, all right? thank you. give me a call back. i would really appreciate. hello. it's rudy giuliani, president trump's lawyer. if you get a chance, would you please give me a call? i have a few things to talk over with you. maybe we can get this thing fixed up. it's a shame republicans are in this situation. i think there may be a nice way to resolve this for everybody. so, give me a call, bill. i'm on

and you can look at arizona. and clearly, this was a state that trump campaign thought they were going to win. but you have to look at the bigger picture. when we're looking at questions of the election integrity, across the board, trump, giuliani, and that team has brought legal challenges to the election results, over 60 times, to no avail. and now, what we're seeing in arizona and, also, some in georgia and pennsylvania. we are seeing audits and we're seeing new inquiries but that is not going to end -- and it's not going to be a new result because these are -- these are still the same numbers that we saw on election night and in the days and weeks to follow. >> and -- and, chris, i have to ask you what you make of this so-called audit that is happening in arizona right now. this quest for bamboo ballots and so on. as somebody who has called elections, every-four years, how nutty is this? >> well, first -- first thing, let me say is i love your heart, alice stewart. >> thank you. >> but the truth is that this

donald trump is going to arizona. while a team of volunteers spent weeks scouring ballots for proof they were shipped in they were from overseas here's a news flash that trump did not spend a single dollar from the $75 million raised from the pac for this audit or another ballot review across the country so it seems the team realizes nothing is going to reverse the results 0 of this election. yet here we are 263 days after the votes were cast with very few republicans willing to publicly accept there's no hail mary in arizona. let's check in with kung law there in phoenix. >> reporter: still pretty lively right now as this place is beginning to fill up. this is an indoor theater and expected in a few hours is donald trump to headline this entire event why the atmosphere here when you go around and talk to people here to see trump is absolute refusal to accept the election results. when you talk to them and ask them what they think happened in november 2020, they don't believe what happened. instead they parrot the lie

amplifying the big lie and praising arizona republicans despite what arizona senate president and leader of the effort karen van publicly says. >> this is not about trump. this is not about overturning the election. this has never been about anything other than election integrity. >> reporter: her e-mails tell another story. obtained by watchdog group american oversight last month. van writes in a december e-mail she spoke with mayor giuliani at least six times in two weeks and mentions a private two hour meeting with giuliani and the trump legal team. in november van writes she asked the trump legal team to please file a lawsuit to halt vote certification in the state. she tells another voter last december about a personal call from president trump thanking us for pushing to prove any fraud. but van wasn't the only elected official who received calls from the trump orbit. maricopa supervisor bill gates got a voice mail 2020 from then trump lawyer rudy giuliani. >> i have a few things i'd like to talk. maybe we can get this thing fixed up. >> reporter: do you believe this entire thing wa

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joining me now is arizona secretary of state katie hobbs. a democratic candidate for arizona governor. to good to see you, secretary. so your attorneys argued to the court that these two measured disenfranchise voters of color and violated section two of the voting rights act. and let me remind people, the provisions would not allow ballots to be cast outside of voter precincts or allowed to have spun else to return a completed ballot. so the supreme court majority ruled against you. what is your reaction to that? >> well, this was an expected outcome. but what this ruling underscores is that urgent need for action at the state and federal level to protect voting rights. and what we're seeing right now is a move across country to go in the opposite direction. and in that context, this decision is very harmful and it is going to make it harder for anyone to be able to challenge discriminatory voting laws. >> and so like you said, this is not just about arizona. there are at least 14 other states that have passed laws restricting voting access

particularly, the arizona one. i mean, that have been just so readily debunked, including by the republican-election officials in maricopa county. >> right. >> so, you know, it is a con. it is a scam. and -- and people are involved in fantasy fulfillment for donald trump. >> and it goes on. i mean, now, maggie, he's going to -- to arizona to go onstage. to have all the politicians who are going to be running are going to be on the stage with him or dying to -- to get a photo with him. and there will be, i'm sure, more e-mails going out about sending money to him to continue fighting for what they are calling is election integrity. even though that's a ruse. >> it's interesting, anderson. you know, he -- he was talking -- some reporting that he was talking to an adviser a couple of weeks ago and he was trying to push this person to say, you know, that -- that this idea that he could be reip st reinstated in august is real, which it isn't, to be clear. squ and he was trying to push this person to say this arizona eff

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this is rudy giuliani essentially saying the exact same thing in arizona. and what this tells me, victor, is this was part of a coordinated effort by donald trump and rudy giuliani to interfere with and overturn the election results in those two states and potentially elsewhere. these are crimes. let's be clear. it's a federal crime. it's a georgia crime, an arizona crime to try to convince an official to count votes that were not actually cast or not to count votes that were actually cast. this is serious stuff. we know the d.a. in georgia is investigating, and now we have to see whether the authorities, the prosecutors in arizona do the same thing. i think they ought to. >> the more we -- the more evidence that comes out and the more we hear about this pressure campaign to overturn donald trump's election loss, you realize the intestinal fortitude and steel spine it took for these local election officials to not return the call of the president of the united states or his attorney. and by the way, now, as we know, there are all of these laws in all of the

that was part of the arizona republic's online post. >> it's rudy giuliani. i was very happy to see that there's going to be forensic audit of the machines and i really wanted to talk to you about it a bit. the president wanted me to give you a call. all right? thank you. give me a call back. i would really appreciate it. thank you. >> hey, clint. it' it's kelly ward. i just talked to president trump and he's -- he would like me to talk to you. and also, see if he needs to give you a call to discuss what's happening on the ground in maricopa. give me a call back, when you can. thanks. bye. >> so, who is clint? clint hickman, at the time, was the chair of the board of supervisors in maricopa county. a republican. he says he never returned those calls, or ones from the white house switchboard operator, with requests to call back former-president trump. and i want to give you the timeframe of when these calls were made, in relation to that call that the then-president made to georgia's secretary of state, brad raffensperger, the infamous find-me-votes call. that

arizona is turning into a politically-purple state. and they are concerned. >>> strong values and strong opinions. >> there is not one bit of proof of any of this. >> reporter: he is the go to for conservative talk on arizona radio. but on these so-called audit? >> i understand that i'm an outlier with my own people when i question what people are going to think about this audit. >> reporter: mike, lifelong republican. trump? >> yeah. >> you voted for him? >> twice. twice, i voted for him. >> reporter: but trump lost and broomhead thinks a so-called audit is a waste of time. instead, he thinks the focus should be on winning republican seats in 2022. >> if they win enough seats in the house, they take over the majority in the house. >> reporter: but some of his listeners, his base, now call him everything from a turncoat to a rino to a liberal. >> when you throw people out that disagree with you, it's hard to get them back when you need them to vote. and that scares me. >> reporter: politically, what is at stake here for republicans? >>

now there are no good options for this audit here in arizona. it was -- first of all, it was unnecessary. our republican county board of supervisors, which is 4-1 republican conducted two audits using election assistance commission approved companies, bipartisan commission, non-partisan professional companies two audits confirmed we had a fair election here in maricopa county. it was no purpose to begin with but since it's been a conclusion in search of evidence and now that no evidence of fraud or error has been detected, they've taken to inventing statistics and facts made up out of thin air about more ballots received than requested, which of course is thoroughly debunked. there is no good resolution for this. when i started, there is no good that can come out of this. >> here is the thing, when this audit and, you know, i put the quotes around it, when this is done, whatever it's done, it been going on and on and still goes on and on and there is an outcome and what chris said is powerful. you can go off the cliff or jump off the train going

what do you think the lasting effect of this audit will be for the republican party in arizona? it sounds as though it could become a litmus test, republicans trying to win elections in that state may have to attach themselves to the results of this audit. what do you think? >> i think most people have even forgotten -- most sane people, let me rephrase, have forgotten that this audit is going on, right? joe biden has been president for over six months now. he swore in six months ago. but the people who are not -- who are part of the trump cult are putting all their eggs in this maricopa basket and there is people that actually believe that trump is getting reinstated in august. they can't tell you how, they can't tell you why, they can't give you any sort of legal precedent, they can't make a logical argument. but the same way the tooth fairy shows up, they think there's going to be somebody showing up and spreading dust and trump is going to be president. and then we ask ourselves how is it possible that people are not getting vaccinated? and it's because the republican party,

i want to start with this arizona stuff. i mean, we've known for a long time, obviously, that the president has been interested in getting states to basically find the votes that he needed in order to win. what went on in arizona, i think, highlights the big challenge. it didn't end after election day. it didn't end after the inauguration. we have an audit going on there. and this is a little bit from giuliani's voice mail to one of the republican arizona officials. he says to him, if you get a chance, would you pleads give me a call. i have a few things i'd like to talk over with you. maybe we can get this thing fixed up. i think it's a shame republicans are both kind of in this situation, and i think there may be a nice way to resolve this for everybody. this is like the kind of thing that you would see in a gangster movie or something like that. but it's happening in american elections. what does this matter at this point given that this is the predicate for voting restrictions that are coming down the pike in states like

. >>> how big a deal was the supreme court ruling today about arizona? 6-3, right, party lines, that two provisions of an arizona voting law do not violate the voting rights act. i must say this, the biden administration agreed, okay, they put out a statement saying that they didn't think they did. what did the court do here? what was the net effect? did they make it harder to challenge election laws? yes. so now the attention turns to congress. the question is, will they do anything? we discuss with a key player, senator joe manchin. thank you so much for being on prime time. >> good to be with you, chris. >> let's start with the big headline. the supreme court says arizona law changes in terms of having to show up at the right ballot place on election day or it doesn't count and limiting the number of people who can collect ballots to care workers, close family, those are not unconstitutional. you see that mitch mcconnell doesn't believe in the john lewis act. so this combination means what for the protection of voting rights in this country in your op

the supreme court has just issue aid ruling on a challenge to arizona's voting law changes. let's get to jessica schneider for more. what did they rule. >> this is a major decision coming from the supreme court on voting rights and in particular how challengers to many of the restrictive voting bills around the country enacted by the republican-led states, how they'll be able to enk the laws in court. so first of all, i'll tell you that the supreme court was ruling specifically on two arizona laws, the supreme court upholding these two laws. these were one regulation, one law, the first regulation said that election officials had to discard ballots that were cast at the wrong polling precinct. the second was a law that actually made it a criminal offense to help in ballot collection. something that critics call ballot harvesting. and it said that anyone who wasn't a family member or a caretaker or an election worker could not help another person deliver their ballot to the right precinct. so the supreme court saying that both of those regulations or laws were okay. now that

arizona is a very, very lenient state on firearms. i've been a firearms owner my entire life, and i like the laws in arizona. i think we have a very safe city here in phoenix, and i think we've proven just because you have lenient laws for law-abiding gun owners that it doesn't make your place more dangerous to live. maybe that one. >> hold on, let's go one at a time. i am a gun owner, by the way. you probably didn't know that. most of you guys don't. but do you believe that all sales should be checked to make sure that people who are getting them should get them? >> i think most of the sales already are, but, yeah i don't have an issue with checking to make sure people are legal gun owners. i think a better way to solve the problem is theid databases that are used when they do the background checks should be updated. >> i agree. do you think people who don't -- first of all, you've got to do better with the paperwork like you just said. do you think people that don't get secure their firearms and they get used in a crime should be ch

in this case, the arizona fraudit. my next guest lives in maricopa county. that's where it's being conducted. a two-time trump voter. a well-known voice in phoenix. he was for this cyberninja count, initially. but now, he is against it. i want to talk to mr. broomhead -- real name -- because i want to talk about what's happening there. but more importantly, what does he believe needs to change? next. no, he's not in his room. ♪ dad, why didn't you answer your phone? your mother loved this park. ♪ she did. what's on the horizon? the answers lie beyond the roads we know. we recognize that energy demand is growing, and the world needs lower carbon solutions to keep up. at chevron, we're working to find new ways forward, like through our venture capital group. backing technologies like electric vehicle charging, carbon capture and even nuclear fusion. we may not know just what lies ahead, but it's only human... to search for it. >>> we are about to learn a whole lot more about what the cyber ninjas are up to with that so-called audit in arizona. the house ov

and he said all of this during a rally in arizona last night. >> the big lie they call it. you know what's the big lie? the opposite is the big lie. the election was the big lie. and eye got to tell you, a got to say this. i've never said it before but i've always thought it. if i lost the election, i'm okay with that. i'm okay with it. seriously. if we lost the election, we lose an election. i'll go home, i'll start building buildings, do something, keep myself busy. but you know what, if we lost the election, we know when we lose. you know, in georgia they had an election. we did so well and everyone knew we won by hundreds of thousands and they stole it from us. what happened is we had two senators running a couple months later. you know what happened to them in the republicans said, we're not going out to vote pause this was rigged. this election was rigged. and they know it. you know when you win and when you lose. if i lost this election, i could handle it pretty easily. when they steal it from you and rig it, that's not easy and we

ward targeted arizona election officials with a pressure campaign, according to "the arizona republic." but inlike in georgia where the gop secretary of state recorded a call with the president, the keymar -- key maricopa county election official refused to speak to trump. ron brownstein joins us. why are these latest revelations significant to you? >> happy fourth to you and everybody watching. i think there are two real important conclusions that come out of these revelations in arizona. one is that we simply do not know all the ways in which donald trump used and abused his power as president. it just underscores the need for a more comprehensive understanding of what he did in office. and all of the ways in which he may have gone beyond the proper boundaries of the use of presidential power, especially given that he may ask the country to restore it to him again in a little over three years. i was talking to our colleague john dean a couple of weeks ago for a story i was writing. he noted that when nixon left office, we had so much of a better idea of everything that had happened

. >>> later today, former president trump will hold a rally in arizona. it will take place in maricopa county where a sham election audit has made the state ground zero for trump's big lie. it comes as "the washington post" reports that trump's pac raised $75 million this year. and none of that money has gone to arizona's audit or similar efforts in other states. despite trump saying that they are key to overturning the election that he falsely claims was stolen from him. here's cnn's sunlen serfaty. >> reporter: former president donald trump. >> we were doing so well until the rigged election happened to come along. >> reporter: remaining fixated on the baseless claims of election fraud pushing hard for state ballot reviews of the 2020 election results. in a steady stream of public statements and comments, promoting the so-called audit of maricopa county ballots in arizona. >> i want to congratulate, by the way, republican state senators in arizona and other places for their great work. that they are doing and exposing this fraud. >> reporter: but privat

. >> i want to congratulate state senators of arizona and other places for their great work, that they're doing in exposing this fraud. >> reporter: privately, trump isn't putting his money where his mouth is. "the washington post" reporting that of the $75 million trump save america pact has brought in in the first half of this year, the group has not put any resources into helping finance the on going ballot reviews he's been pushing so hard for siting sources familiar with the finances. instead, according to the washington post, that money is actually paying for some of the former president's travel, legal cost and staff along with other expenses and noting the pact has held on to much of its cash. >> there are so many discrepancies, so many problems

and at issue were the two arizona laws. one said that if you cast a ballot in the wrong precinct, it has to be wholly discarded. and the second said -- had to do with restrictions on who could deliver a ballot to the polling place. it said only family members, close family members and really was more restrictive there. and a lower court said both of these laws had an impact on minorities and struck them down under the voting right act. and today a justice writing about a 6-3 majority, and that's breaking down along ideological lines. he said the laws were okay. and what's really important about it is his reasoning. you heard echoes of what the conservatives have been saying, what president trump is saying. that states have a right to pass laws to combat voting fraud. and so what this means is now the court today has limited the reach of section 2, and it comes as states across the country are passing more and more restrictive laws. so it should have a big impact in the near future. >> yeah. for georgia, to florida, to texas

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>> i said it to the arizona of republic. i was horrified. i listened to the phone call and i read the transcript and i thought, this is not what i'm used to. a month before that i told people that were close to the trump campaign with all this litigation that was going on, i said, just do me a favor. i can't talk to anyone while this is being litigated. and that stayed true all the way up till that new year's weekend. i got a phone call from the white house switchboard. all of these people that called me, it wasn't stonewalling. we weren't in litigation at all these points. it was getting hard to keep track of. i believe at one point there were eight cases being litigated and maricopa county was finding themselves in the courtroom just at all times. so i wanted to make sure that i was not having conversations outside of that. whatever needed to be said needed to be said in a courtroom in front of a judge or a jury, but we needed to get down to the bottom of it, and this is the same time maricopa county was taking a look at our own people tha

to show support for election integrity and for the brave and unyielding conservative warriors in the arizona state senate. created a movement all over the cou country. as everyone here fully understands the 2020 election was a total disgrace. when they steal it from you and rig it, that's not easy and we have to fight.

i mean, my goodness, in arizona they're collecting evidence. right? they are seizing the ballot machines to audit elections that have been already audited by professionals, sacrificing voter privacy along the way, damaging election equipment and no one seems to be able to stop it. just a few agitators were able to subpoena machines and hand them off to a fly by night outfit no one has heard of and no one can stop it. i don't feel like people are taking this threat seriously enough. meanwhile, every single day trump and his lawyers and his team and his activists are planning a rerun of this in 2022 and 2024. >> well, i think democrats are taking this seriously. it's republicans who aren't taking it seriously that are enabling some of the efforts to continue. they're the ones who are passing the lawshen they have the majority in state legislatures. they're the ones in the senate who wouldn't even debate a voting rights bill when all democrats were on board. but i know you're trying to do something about this. you just launched republicans four voting ri

it is also illegal under federal law, under georgia law, it is illegal under arizona law. so those are the higher stakes prosecutions in my view. >> margaret, we have done a lot of coverage of new election laws being passed by gop legislatures and they fall into two categories. one is about voting access, how many days, et cetera, drop boxes and so on, but the other one deals with who can disrupt the count or challenge the counts as it is happening, can partisans do so. and based on your reading of those laws, have they made something like this more likely to work in future elections? >> look, i think what is going on in the states right now is going to make it in general easier for things like it to become politicized and increase the chances that the federal government is going to be asked to intervene either through executive authority through the justice department, or on the back end through the courts. and what we're looking at overall is setting up a system that looks like it is asking for much more litigation on a consistent basis to try to reconcile what states ar

upholding arizona's restrictive new voting laws and signaling they would like -- likely side with other states passing new voting restrictions in the name of preventing bogus voter fraud, ie, the big lie. the highest court in the land gutting voting rights as states across the country are passing restrictive laws targeting voters of color while congress sits on its hands totally unable to get anything done on the john lewis act or the for the people act. in the face of all that, the president of the united states, joe biden, a consoler in chief going down to florida as rescuers search for any sign of the missing more than a week after that condo collapsed in the middle of the night. and as questions loom over what caused that disaster. the president promising the feds will cover the cost of the search and the rescue for 30 days. and apologizing for being late for his speech because he stopped to talk to everybody who wanted to hear from him. >> i apologize for taking so long to get here because i thought it was important to speak to every single person who wanted to speak to me. jill an

he was upset when arizona was called by fox for joe biden. you suggest that it was rupert murdoch who ultimately made the decision, the final decision to make that call. you write he got his father on the phone to ask if he wanted to make the early call. his father with a signature grunt added f him. fox disputes this. they say the account is false. fox news media president jay wallace was called into the control room. any other version of the story is wildly inaccurate. >> they just lie. i am rupert murdoch's biographer. i have spent more time with murdoch than any other journalist not in his employ. at this point in my life and career, i know what rupert thinks before he thinks it. there's no question here. i don't suggest this, i know for a fact this is what happened. there is no possibility that rupert murdoch on election night is not calling almost every shot. this is the day of all days for rupert. >> again, i did read the fox statement so people know what fox says about it. you say bill hemmer called the trump campaign to tell them tha

former president donald trump rallying a crowd last night in arizona, the very state where a sham audit of the 2020 election has dragged on for months. trump delivering less of a speech and more of a nonstop list of grievances while sending these marching orders to republicans. >> they say, well, sir, we have to get on to the future. let me tell you, you're not going to have a future. first of all, our nation is being destroyed, but you're not going to have a future in ''22 r '24 if you don't find out how they cheated. >> i want to go live now to capitol hill, reporter melanie zanona, melanie, good to see you. what more do we know about the addition of kinzinger to this committee? >> this was a big move by speaker nancy pelosi adding kinzinger to the select panel and making him now the second republican to join the investigation. we at cnn reported first that pelosi was considering this idea as a way to bring even more legitimacy to an already bipartisan investigation. she made it official today, however. kevin mccarthy, the gop leader, wasting no time weighing in. he is saying that pel

the state of arizona. joe biden wins arizona and he wins it narrowly. phoenix, big. that's where you win in arizona. you win here. that's blue. let's go back four years. that's red. donald trump carries arizona then. one of the examples, you can do it in georgia, too. donald trump runs strong among white suburbans. joe biden runs strong four years later, he takes arizona and changes the -- map. the shifting mood. come over here and look at this giant game. 66% for hillary clinton. 28% for donald trump. joe biden still won but 59-38. donald trump improved his standing. 10 points among hispanic voters. how does that translate on the map? remember in the 2020 campaign. democrats had dreams. we're going to take texas back. you see a lot of blue down here. right? in this part of texas. but take a look. this is 2020. right? biden lost texas. donald trump won it comfortably. go back in time. you see more blue. right? when hillary clinton -- i mean when donald trump carries texas over hillary clinton shelf did better here. has the tiny county, maverick county. but 76% for hi

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arizona audit could up end biden's victory in the state. in michigan, christina, a republican candidate for secretary of state, is also running on claims that trump won the state even though biden won michigan by more than 154,000 votes. she, too, is calling for an arizona-style audit for her battleground state. joining us now is natasha alford, cnn political analyst and vp of digital content and senior correspondent and also with us is cnn political commentator, scott jennings, a former special assistant to president george w. bush and former senior adviser to senate minority leader mitch mcconnell. great to have you both on this morning. natasha, i wonder what do you think of this echoing trump's false election claim as a strategy for winning? >> well, i think people are doing exactly what has worked for donald trump. right? poll after poll has shown that even with this big lie being proven and disproven that people still believe donald trump is the rightful president. and so in the same way that folks have chosen the media that echos exa

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according to the arizona republic, trump along with close allies like rudy jewel januariny and kelly ward actually tried to pressure election officials in maricopa county. let's listen to a voice mail that giuliani left for republican mayor bill gates previously obtained by cnn. >> bill, it's rudy giuliani, president trump's lawyer. if you get a chance, would you please give me a call. i have a few things i like to talk over with you. maybe we can get this thing fixed up. i really think it's a shame that republicans sort of were both in in this situation. i think there may be a nice way to resolve this for everybody. >> what do you think about that? >> well, brianna, at the state's united democracy center, bipartisan, which i cochair with former gop governor christie todd wittman, we've tracked very closely these efforts around the country. and it reminds me of the georgia case, which we know is under investigation by georgia fulton county d.a. willis and those words by giuliani, the authorized representative, the attorney of donald trump, suggesting that they can get it fixed up, th

he just announced on telegram to his followers he put $3.3 million into it, way more than the arizona senate put into it which was 150,000. so this is someone very invested in this audit. he comes out with this movie saying that he has proof of election fraud, meanwhile i didn't see that proof presented in this movie. and then i'm watching it and they're showing the film crew walking through the cage with the ballots. meanwhile the journalists who tried to get access to the auditor up in the coliseum, not in the nosebleeds but close to it, trying to watch what's going on, obviously they have chain of custody that they've promised that they'll maintain the security of the ballots. so it was shocking to me to see that they had let someone else besides the workers and whoever they had planned to into those ballot cages. >> so jessica, what do you make of this? this is clearly this one would think highly partisan film crew here with a definite point of view allowed right next to the ballots. how unusual is that? >> this is extremely unusual. i have been covering elections since the very b

the recent ruling in the arizona case is a perfect example of where even president carter at one time said that the biggest problem, the biggest potential for cheating in elections is through absentee ballots. even he said that. that was part of the reasoning for the arizona decision there. >> if you're going to apply that principle, then that same principle would have to apply in the other states that trump won, north carolina, texas, ohio. if you look at the voter fraud and so forth and the amount of it, if you look at that, it's less than .001%, meaning that the election itself from all we know was like 99.99% successful with eligible voters having their voices heard through their vote. that's pretty good, is it not? >> what i know is this, is that the changes made to the election process in the state of georgia were made by the executive branch without the approval of the legislative branch. our constitution is perfectly clear that it should be made by the legislative branch. that's why i applaud the georgia state legislature for the election integrity act that makes voting easier

donald trump is going to arizona. while a team of volunteers spent weeks scouring ballots for proof they were shipped in they were from overseas here's a news flash that trump did not spend a single dollar from the $75 million raised from the pac for this audit or another ballot

they're winning the audit in arizona raking in big bucks. $5.7 million linked to individuals who promote the big lie including michael flynn, sydney powell and the former overstock.com ceo patrick burn. donations are on top of $150,000 the group was paid by the arizona senate. >>> the fight against a looming recall election in arizona. >> we've seen trump republicans across the country attacking election results and the right to vote. now they're coming to grab power in california. >> that's the massachusetts senator, elizabeth warren, former president candidate, linking to restrictive voting against the country including the former president. thank you for joining us. we'll see you back here tomorrow. ana cabrera picks up right now. >>> thanks for being us. we are entering a new era in the pandemic fight in the u.s. vaccine requirements. soon president biden is expected to say all federal employees will have to prove they're vaccinated or face strict routine testing. corporate america already going there. facebook, google, netflix and more now requiring or mandating shots. the resoundin

organizer ali alexander, is launching his own protest. >> for what purpose does the gentleman from arizona rise? >> i rise both for myself and 60 of my colleagues to object to the, uh, counting of the electoral ballots from arizona. >> so there you have it, the first objection. they'll be separated now. >> i didn't have a view into the outside but somebody texted me a photo of people on the inaugural platform and that was the first time i thought, wow, i can't believe we're at this point. >> it was almost the same moment donald trump was delivering this prophetic line. >> and we fight. we fight like hell. and if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore. so we're going to walk down pennsylvania avenue. >> outside the walls of the capitol, mayhem. a member of the proud boys got his hands on a capitol police riot shield. >> they're throwing bricks at the capitol! >> you hear officers on the radio screaming for help. >> harry dunn, stationed on the capitol's east side, races to help his comrades on the west and is stunned at what he sees. >> capitol injuries, multi

. ♪ ♪ >>> topping our political lead, former president trump heads to arizona this weekend to boost the big lie that the election was stolen from him, which we know is not true. this as the so-called audit of the 2020 votes in maricopa county launched by arizona republicans continues. let's launch right into it with our panel of ladies wearing red. you've got on red shoes. [ laughter ] so let's talk about this. really it's stunning what "the washington post" is reporting, that former president trump's political pac stockpiled $75 million, and most of that money is staying in its war chest. why not put your money where your mouth is? >> well, billionaire presidential candidate is someone who's also known for never wanting to really risk his own money when it comes down to it. there's a lot of talk and very little action. and i think it really demonstrates that at the end of the day what this is all about that war chest is all about is his own political future, what happens to him, his ability to run again in 2024, and not so much financing this sham audit in arizona, which i think even h

it reminded me a lot of last summer in arizona. on top of that, everybody else is also coming in. last year there was a sense that people weren't coming to the e.r. now all those other people seem t to think that life has come back to normal. all those other cases are coming as well. it's a double whammy. >> you said you treated a woman who had covid who was screaming out in pain and saying she would rather die of covid than get the vaccine. >> that was ironic, to say the least. to come to e.r. looking for help but refusing to get the most effective treatment possible and really the only treatment makes us at a loss for words. it's also very frustrating. we're human too. as physicians, nurses, respiratory therapists, et cetera, we have something that can help prevent infection and completely prevent severe infection and yet people refuse to get it. they come in begging for help but also refusing the vaccine. it's utterly ironic. it's really, quite frankly, anger inducing. honestly, it backs up care for everybody else who's trying to do the right thing, so it's very selfish also. >

depicts trump lawyer rudy giuliani on election night pushing trump to forget that fox news had called arizona for joe biden. quote, just go declare victory right now giuliani told trump. you have got to go declare victory now. giuliani's interjection of his just say you won strategy infuriated trump's campaign advisers. >> these two old guys trying to determine what's really going on in the world, and they don't get it. >> rudy giuliani did not respond to cnn's request for comment. another book by michael wolf portrays a president isolated right after the election. quote, by the friday after election day, there was not a single white house aid or trump campaign official or trump pollster who believed that the vote count could be reasonably or effectively challenged. >> he is a man alone. his lawyers are saying we're not going to -- we're not going to do this. we're not going to fight these cases. >> and wolf rights that as the attack on the capital raged on january 6th, quote, the president seemed to not be grasping the facts as they were coming through. these people were protesting the elect

across the board they changed arizona, georgia, and parts of nevada. and then after that, republicans said well, we'll need voter restriction laws. that's occurring right now. not only is it occurring, but it's continuing. and we're having challenges to the supreme court. allowing people of color to vote and seeing these voter restrictions. he set the tone. he's sending dog whistles to say the number of people voting is corrupt. the republicans are saying we agree with you and need state laws to prevent it. >> elie honig, walk us through number one, i'm not a lawyer, i know this is grossly inappropriate. grossly inappropriate for the president of the united states to call the country's chief law enforcement officer and say help me lie and cheat. but walk us through the specifics of why this is such a morass. >> yeah. first, this is a closl abuse of power by the president. i think it's important we not take this for granted. we've seen plenty of evidence that the president was willing to do anything to overturn the election. here we are getting confirma